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Katia Lief is an American author of crime fiction, psychological thriller novels and literary fiction. She was born in France to American parents, but quickly moved back home to the East Coast of the United States where she grew up. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she would return to Paris. Months later, she returned to the U.S. to get a publishing job in New York (among other jobs) and then got her Master’s in literature and creative writing. She has written under her birth name of Katia Spiegelman, Kate Pepper and Katia Lief (which she appears to have settled on). She writes the Karin Schaeffer series.

Katia Lief became a published author in 1993 with the novel Peculiar Politics by Katia Spiegelman. The novel would later be re-issued as Peculiar Politics: Love, Sex and the Wrong Bride in 2005 and then re-published as Love, Sex & the Wrong Bride by Katia Lief. In 2004, she debuted her pen name Kate Pepper, with the novel Five Days in Summer. Since 2010, she has been writing as Katia Lief with the novel You Are Next. Below is a list of Katia Lief’s books in order of when they were first released:

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Publication Order of Karin Schaeffer Books

You Are Next(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Next Time You See Me / Hide and Seek(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vanishing Girls / The 12th Victim(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gift(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Money Kill / Dead Rich(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Domino Killer(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Chronological Order of Karin Schaeffer Books

The Domino Killer is a prequel short story to You Are Next.

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Soul Catcher (As: Katia Spiegelman)(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Peculiar Politics: Love, Sex and the Wrong Bride (As: Katia Spiegelman)(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Five Days in Summer / Five Days to Die (As:Kate Pepper)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Here She Lies (As:Kate Pepper)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Seven Minutes to Noon (As:Kate Pepper)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One Cold Night (As:Kate Pepper)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cartoons: The Rise and Fall of Rocky Love (As: Katia Spiegelman)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Names of the Dead / Watch You Die (As:Kate Pepper)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Waterbury (As:Kate Pepper)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Invisible Woman(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Heartbeat(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Beautiful Years(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Orchid Grower(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: The novels Five Days in Summer, Seven Minutes to Noon, One Cold Night and Here She Lies were originally written as Kate Pepper. Five Days in Summer was re-published as Five Days to Die by Katia Lief. Next Time You See Me was also published as Hide and Seek. Vanishing Girls was also published under the title of The 12th Victim. Love, Sex and the Wrong Bride was also published as Peculiar Politics: Love, Sex and the Wrong Bride by Katia Spiegelman. Soul Catcher was also published using her birth name of Katia Spiegelman. The Rise and Fall of Rocky Love was also published as Cartoons: The Rise and Fall of Rocky Love by Katia Spiegelman.

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Katia Lief Synopsis: In Names of the Dead by Katia Lief, Darcy Mayhew is grieving from her husband, who died in a car accident. She picks up and moves off to New York with her teenage son, but soon finds out that she has a stalker. Things are about to get worse for Darcy, including a possible revelation about her late husband’s death.

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2 Responses to “Order of Katia Lief Books”

  1. JanH: 10 years ago

    What about The 12th Victim? It isn’t mentioned?!?

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    • Brandon: 10 years ago

      It’s listed as The Vanishing Girl (see notes, which I admit are a little cumbersome).

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